Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.

Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon, was born Lucy Christiana Sutherland in London in 1863. She began a dressmaking business after her
divorce from James Stuart Wallace. The business was successful and evolved into Maison Lucile, a couture house known for Lucile's
ethereal and colorful designs, as well as for its celebrity clientele. In 1900 she married Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon. In addition
to her couture house, she wrote fashion columns for the Hearst papers as well as fashion magazines. Some of the commissions
she worked on around the time of these sketches were for the British premiere of the Franz Lehar operetta,
The merry widow (1907), for
Broadway's Ziegfeld follies revues (1915-1921), and for the Hollywood film,
Way down East (1920). She died on April 20, 1935, at the age of 71, of breast cancer at a nursing home in London.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of fashion sketches by Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon. The color sketches are in pen or pencil with descriptions.

Organization and Arrangement

Sketches are arranged chronologically, 1913-1923, with the exception of some material added later, which date from 1916-1917
and appear at the end.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Physical Description: Foxing on upper left-hand area and bottom right-hand area, peeled upper left-hand corner, bent upper left and right hand-
corners and bottom edge, smudging on upper and middle left-hand areas, and on middle area of sketch.

Physical Description: Foxing on upper right and bottom left and right-hand corners, peeling on upper left-hand corner, tear on upper left-hand
side, bent upper right and bottom left-hand corners, smudging on upper right and bottom left-hand corners.

Physical Description: Foxing along top, right and bottom edges, and middle left area, smudging on mid-lower area and lower left-hand area, bent
upper left and right-hand corners, cut along right-hand corner, scratched top edge.

Physical Description: Foxing on top right-hand edge and bottom right-hand corner, smudging along right edge, bottom left-hand corner, and upper
left-hand area, white-out with grime on middle top area (around sketch of hat).

Physical Description: Foxing on upper left and right-hand corners and bottom left-hand corner, smudging on bottom left and right-hand corners,
middle right-hand area and upper left-hand area, slightly striated top edge.

Physical Description: Foxing on upper right edge, middle left-hand area, and bottom right-hand corner, smudging on bottom left and right areas,
and upper right-hand corner, "matron of honor" written in pencil on upper right corner, white out grime on various areas on
sketch.

Physical Description: Foxing on top left-hand corner, and bottom area, smudging on top and bottom left-hand corners, peeled spots on middle
right-hand area, white-out grime on various areas on sketch, slightly striated top edge.

Physical Description: Foxing on bottom left-hand area and middle right-hand area, smudging on bottom right-hand corner and top and middle left
hand areas, bent upper right-hand corner, glue like residue on top edge.

Physical Description: Foxing on top and bottom right corners and middle left area, smudging on top middle right area and upper and bottom left-
hand corners and bottom right-hand corner, prick on lower right-hand area, bent upper left and right-hand corners, peeled
top edge.

Physical Description: Foxing on upper left-hand area and middle bottom area, smudging on bottom left-hand area, bent upper left and right-hand
corners, grime on upper middle area of sketch, glue like residue on top edge.

Physical Description: Foxing on top left and right-hand corners, bottom right-hand area and bottom left-hand corner, smudging on bottom left and
right-hand corners and middle left-hand edge, bent upper right-hand corner.

UCLA Drawing No. 203
195, pen sketch of back view on lower right-hand corner, [off-the-shoulder long purple dress with dark purple ruffles, long
sleeves with ruffled cuffs, colorful sprinkle design along top of bodice, and
gold design prints on middle of bodice].
1916-17

Physical Description: Foxing along on upper area, smudging on upper right-hand area and lower left and right-hand corners, white out grime in
middle area, on sketch, discoloration band along top, bent upper left-hand corner.

Physical Description: Foxing along top edge, upper left and right-hand edges, and bottom edge, smudging on all four corners, bent upper left and
right-hand corners, indent on top right-hand edge, peeled top edge.